New plugin: Citations (with Zotero)

@jgauthier thanks a lot for this great plugin! As others have said before, this was one of the last missing must-have-features in order to increase productivity within obsidian!

I have two questions:

  1. can I include the file link (link to my local pdf) directly in the template? I tried with {{file}} but that obviously doesn’t work. Is there any placeholder for this?

  2. would it be somehow possible to implement a feature that allows to include my cited reference directly in the actual note?

Let me elaborate on this second point:

Say, I have a last h2-heading in a note that is called ## References. Whenever I insert a pandoc-style citation @citekey, the full citation is added to my References chapter (like: Author (year): Title, in: xxx, p. xyz), ideally even with a direct link to the local pdf if there is any.

I think, however, this is somehow to complicated to implement…!? An easier solution would be maybe to provide a shortcut that allows to insert this information myself. So, if I press this shortcut, the plugin inserts whatever I have defined in a special template for this, using placeholders.

My individual template could then, for example, look like this:

{{author}} ({{year}}): {{title}}, in: {{containerTitle}}, p. {{page}}. [[@citekey]] [Link to pdf]({{file}})

→ where [[@citekey]] provides the link to my literature note in this example and [Link to pdf]({{file}} results in the following link: [Link to pdf](/path/to/local/file.pdf).

Any chance something like this could be implemented quite easily?

Anyway, thanks for your great work and for sharing this with us! :+1: :clap:

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